The Publishing Game

This course will focus on how to write and publish an article in a peer-reviewed journal. Topics include:

• Characteristics of a publishable paper: novelty, framing, contribution.
• Formulating a research question suitable for the journal article format.
• Structuring your article.
• Choosing the right journal for your article.
• Surviving a rejection.
• Managing the review process and responding to reviewers’ comments.
• Co-authoring practices.
• Ethics in writing and publishing research.  

The main purpose of the course is to provide a better understanding of the publishing game.

The course requires active participation. You will be assigned preparatory work (preparing an outline/draft of a research article). During the course you will be developing your own article draft and analyzing articles from your field of research.

Maximum 15 participants. The course is only open to PhD candidates at the Faculty of Education and International Studies (LUI) and the Centre for the Study of Professions (SPS). If there are more than 15 applicants, applicants who are able to attend both days will be given priority.

This seminar is offered every year. For PhD candidates at LUI, this year’s seminar is primarily for the 2023 cohort. If you are a LUI PhD candidate from a different cohort who missed the seminar for your cohort, and you would like to participate this year, get in touch with Kristin Solli. 

Register your application (nettskjema.no).

Registration deadline: 15 March.

The course will take place at Thon Vika Atrium.

Programme

The programme might be subject to minor changes. 

25 April

• 9: Welcome.
• 9-10.30: Understanding the rules of “the game”: Identifying and entering the conversations in your field (Kristin Solli).
• 10.30-11.00: Break.
• 11-13: Co-authoring (Annette Hessen Bjerke & Kristin Walseth).
• 13-14: Lunch.
• 14-16: Writing for publication – an editor’s perspective (Tone Kvernbekk).
• 16-16.15: Break.
• 16.15-18.15: Work with your articles in groups.
• 18.15-19: Time on your own.
• 19: Dinner.

26 April  

• 9-10.30: Shut up and write/work on your own texts based on feedback and discussions.
• 10.30-11.30: Academic publishing in the era of AI (Tom Muir & Mari Serine Kannelønning).   
• 11.30-12.30 Lunch.
• 12.30-14.30: IMRAD: Analysis and argument (Hege Hermansen). 
• 14.30-15.00: Summing up and evaluations.  

The course involves compulsory preparation to be delivered no later than 1 April to Kristin Solli (e-mail). You will submit a draft of a research article that will be read by two to three of your fellow PhD candidates at the course and a senior reader. At the course, your draft will be discussed in small groups, facilitated by the senior reader.

The draft should be a maximum of five pages, focusing on the introduction and the framing of the article. The focus on this section of the article draft is to facilitate focused discussions in the groups. The draft may be at an early stage, so don’t worry if it is not very developed yet. The article can be in Norwegian or English.  

At the top of your draft, please include a contextual note where you include the following: 

• A proposal for a journal and a justification for why you think this journal may fit.
• A brief explanation of what stage you think this draft is at: early draft, almost finished, somewhere in the middle etc. 
• Any specific questions you may have about the text you are submitting. 
   

English or Norwegian/Scandinavian languages, dependent on the participants’ preferences.

The course is free of costs. 

Important: Registered participants who do not attend or make use of agreed accommodation/meals, will be invoiced for accommodation and meals at the hotel. The deadline to withdraw is 22 March 2024.

After completing the course, participants will receive a course certificate .

• Tone Kvernbekk, University of Oslo (uio.no)